Donaghy on D&C: Refs favoring Magic

magnetik · May 28, 2010

Rocket River said:

I will say this. . . from something that was posted yesterday

HE PREDICTED LAST NIGHTS GAME YESTERDAY ON DAN PATRICK SHOW!!

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/danpatrick/blog/111801/index.html

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DP: How many playoff games did you work that you had money on?
TD: I don't believe there were any playoff games at the time when I was giving the information to the people associated with organized crime. But in prior years, there may have been maybe three or four games in the playoffs where I felt I had inside information. I discuss one of those instances in the book. I believe it was 2005, I was an alternate in one of the games, and in one of the pre-game meetings, word came down from the league office to really crack down on Yao Ming and his illegal screens and traveling violations. And with that, I told people to bet on Dallas.
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regardless I am glad he came clean. albeit only after he got caught. So he's still a slimeball as far as I'm concerned

rock4ever · May 28, 2010

francis 4 prez said:

when people say "claims," i assume they mean all of his conspiracy talk like lakers/kings game 6 or rockets/mavs in 2005 or any other controversial game he's tried to point out and say "yeah, that was fixed" just because it was controversial. that's easy to do.

from what i gather, his troubling 80% pick rate was more that he knew reffing styles (if they call a lot of fouls, take the over or things like that) or biases certain refs have against certain players or teams. certainly it's not good that refs have enough biases that you can pick games at a very high rate, and maybe the league should look at statistics that seem to indicate a bias exists and try to avoid those ref/team matchups, but that isn't really what most people think of when thinking of donaghy claims. they picture david stern staying up late at night concocting a way for kendrick perkins to get 2 cheap technical fouls so a playoff series can be extended. a series the all-powerful league apparently already let get to 3-0 for some reason. and like i said, if the celtics win and some calls look bad then obviously the league wants a lakers/celtics matchup. if dallas gets calls, it's because mark cuban has too much influence and makes david stern do what he says. if dallas doesn't get calls, it's obviously because david stern hates mark cuban.

because of perception, the league can't win no matter what happens. obviously, at the end of the day they need to get rid of that perception b/c it hurts the league's image, but for now people yell "conspiracy!!" no matter what so it's going to be a long process. the league probably takes blame for letting the talk go on too long and for not appearing to do enough to stop it, but at the end of the day, until further evidence comes along it certainly appears to be perception and not reality.
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